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This Week at DP
Readers are Leaders
Positive Behavior Support Update
Our Dexter Park Promises
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 7
Upcoming Events
September 14th: Leadership Team @ 8:10 a.m.
September 21: Author's Visit (Paul Reynolds)- schedule to follow
September 24th: Early release (11:30)
September 27th: Open House @ 6:00 p.m. (NOTE THE DATE CHANGE)
September 28th: Picture Day
This Week in Ed News
"The prevailing model of schooling is still centered around the notion that schools are places young people go to watch their teacher work.” John Fischetti in “Reframing Teacher Education for Learning Equity” in Peabody Journal of Education, September 2018 (Vol. 93, #3, p. 267-271), https://bit.ly/2N4gB7a
“I send them out of the room and nothing happens!” A teacher when a student is returned to her classroom after a trip to the office. “I helped get an out-of-control kid back in control, and the teacher isn’t satisfied!” The principal who responded to the teacher’s call. Mike Anderson channeling these educators
“I will not do anything bad ever again.” Bart Simpson writing lines on the board in Mrs. Krabappel’s classroom after yet another infraction, quoted in “The Power of Common Language” by Vanessa Scanfeld, LaShonda David, Leah Weintraub, and Vincent Dotoli in Educational Leadership, September 2018 (Vol. 76, #1, p. 54-58), https://bit.ly/2MG3dpJ
“If you simply put kids into groups with no training, a minority of members will likely do the majority of the talking.” Deborah Farmer Kris
“When students write, they have opportunities to articulate, revise, and strengthen their ideas, as well as to present and communicate their thinking.” Rick Coppola and Becca Woodard
“Possessed of a powerful emotional intelligence, Lincoln was both merciful and merciless, confident and humble, patient and persistent – able to mediate among factions and sustain the spirits of his countrymen.” Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Location: 3 Dexter Street, Orange, MA, United States
Phone: 978-544-6080
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